Word: pg
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...reel life and real life. The boy writes a certain word on a piece of paper and asks the man to say it out loud. Jack declines the challenge, and Danny knows why. "You can't," the lad crows. "You can't possibly say it! Because this movie is PG...
Last Action Hero is indeed PG-13, the movie industry parental-guidance rating that strongly cautions parents of children under 13. Many people may be colorfully killed in a PG-13 picture, and certain expletives may be uttered -- but not the one Danny wrote. If it were, Last Action Hero might be given the restricted R rating (no unescorted person under 17 allowed), theoretically eliminating the huge sector of movie addicts like Danny. A survey by David Davis of Paul Kagan Associates showed that from 1984 to 1991, PG-rated films were twice as likely as R-rated films...
Most of the movie eschews overt violence for its much more satisfying alternative -- the threat of violence. The guts and gore are seen mostly in the viewer's lurid imagination. That is why Jurassic Park slips so neatly into its PG-13 rating. "I do think this movie is inappropriate for children under 13," Spielberg says. "In general, though, I think children are more traumatized by violence that can be re-created in a natural setting: a movie about child abuse or a movie about murder. This is a movie that not only can't happen, but can't even...
SUMMER MOVIES ARRIVE THIS YEAR WEARing a big Smile button. In a kinder, gentler mood (and facing a shrinking, glutted market), moguls have resolved to appeal to the widest possible audience. So the violence in action movies gets toned down one calculated notch, to snag a PG or PG-13 rating, and sex is soft-focused into romance...
...film's opening days, no violent incidents were reported. One nervous Portland, Oregon, theater chain initially refused to show the film but gave in after local blacks protested. Actually, many whites who have seen it say Lee's restrained PG-13 approach quickly allayed any fears they had. "I didn't think it was as controversial as it was made out to be. The book was a lot more inflammatory," says Peter McCabe, a 26-year-old actor in New York. "I could have definitely taken a bit more shaking up even though I'm white...